21 DEC 1880 to William Tonks
Wellington, New Zealand. [6][7][8]
Golden Wedding Notice
Mr. and Mrs. William Tonks celebrated their golden wedding at their residence, 17, Thompson street, on Sunday. William Tonks is the eldest son of the late Enoch and Susan Tonks, early pioneers' of the "Forties," and was born in Wellington in 1559. His wife is the eldest daughter of tho late Mr. and Mrs. Pinker, and was born in Brighton, England, in 1858, and arrived in New Zealand, with her parents in the ship SS. Strathnever on the 31st August, 1874. There are eight living children, five daughters and three sons, nineteen living grand children, and one great-grandchild.
Two couples called William and Emily Gertrude Tonks in NZ at the time.
Another child is showing on NZBDM [10] to them but the DOB is coming up as 01/01/1897. His military file shows he is the child of a Christchurch (later Hawera) couple with the same names.
↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24K-Z43J : accessed 8 April 2017), William Tonks in entry for Emily Gertrude Tonks, 1888; citing Birth, New Zealand, New Zealand, Wellington; registration number 1888/82 - Incorrect place of birth!
William Tonks mentioned in the record of Emily Gertrude Tonks
Name: William Tonks
Sex:: Male
Wife: Emily Gertrude Tonks
Child: Emily Gertrude Tonks
Name: Emily Gertrude Tonks
Event Type: Birth
Event Date: 1888
Event Place: New Zealand
Father's Name: William Tonks
Mother's Name: Emily Gertrude Tonks
Registration Number:1888/8281
↑ "New Zealand, Civil Records Indexes, 1800-1896," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24V-J14F : accessed 8 April 2017), William Tonks and Emily Gertrude Pinker, 1880; citing Marriage, New Zealand, New Zealand, Wellington; registration number 1880/137.
Name: William Tonks
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: New Zealand
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Emily Gertrude Pinker
Spouse's Gender: Female
Registration Number: 1880/137
↑ Death Notice www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz Evening Post 5 October 1936 Page 15
OBITUARY-MRS. WILLIAM TONKS, The many friends of Mrs. William Tonks, of Wellington, will regret to learn of her death which occurred at 17 Thomson Street last week. Mrs. Tonks was the daughter of the late Mr. Alfred Pinker, Native schoolmaster at Maketu, Bay of Islands, and was born at Brighton, England, in 1858. She arrived in New Zealand in the Stratnaver in 1874 at the age of 16 years. On December 21. 1880, she was married to William, eldest son of the late Enoch Tonks, by the late Rev. Williams. She was a woman with a wonderful spirit of kindliness, and her cheerfulness and courage were an inspiration .to her friends, who will feel much sympathy with her family in their loss. She is survived by her^ husband and eight children, three sons, Percy (Wanganui), Stanley (Wellington), Leonard (Dunedin), and five daughters, Mesdames R. Bennett, J. Rouse, L. Flyger, W. O. Urquhart, all of Wellington, and Mrs. V. W. Wright, of Glenbrook. There are twenty grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
↑ NZBDM BIRTH:1897/2652 Tonks Arthur Benjamin Parents:Emily Gertrude & William
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Source: S93 Ancestry.com 1871 England Census Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Repository: #R5
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